http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ Latest Content for Central North Island en-nz Copyright 2010 APN HOLDINGS NZ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:25:06 +1200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss APN RSS Generator webnews@nzherald.co.nz webmaster@nzherald.co.nz http://www.nzherald.co.nz/images/nz_little_logo.gif http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/headlines.cfm?l_id=151 The discovery of a man's body near Lake Taupo yesterday is not being treated as suspicious, police say. Taupo man Dirk Willem Van der Schaaf, 50, was found dead on the Lions Walk of Lake Terrace, near the Napier-Taupo Highway (State... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10633034&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:34:54 +1200 Telecom has created a new section on its website to keep media and customers updated on its XT network during a review and improvements following a series of outages affecting thousands of customers. The inside XT section has information... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10632779&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:31:23 +1200 A portrait by renowned New Zealand artist Charles Frederick Goldie of one of his favourite subjects is expected to sell for close to $250,000 when it goes up for auction in Auckland. Goldie painted Arawa chieftainess Ahinata Te... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10632411&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:19:52 +1200 Passengers on a 40-seater bus managed to escape the vehicle just before it burst into flames. The bus was travelling along High Level Rd, the main forestry road between State Highway 5 and Murupara near Taupo about 7.30pm on Sunday... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10632359&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +1200 A 31-year-old man died after he lost control of the car he was driving and collided with a power pole in the Waikato town of Putaruru last night. The crash happened on Arapuni Road about 11pm, Taupo area road policing group Senior... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10632329&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:30:57 +1200 An eyewitness to an attack on Bay of Plenty school principal and Environment Bay of Plenty councillor Hawea Vercoe, says his head was kicked like a rugby ball. The 36-year-old Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Rotoiti principal died after... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10632181&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:00:15 +1200 A convicted paedophile's appeal hearing has been postponed for an unspecified period as lawyers from both sides try to find videotapes of the witness interviews. Bruce Benjamin Shepherd, 74, was found guilty in March 2006 on 20... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10632188&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:53:04 +1200 Police say someone will know the whereabouts of a teenager reported missing from Rotorua 10 days ago. Finesse Broughton , 14, was last seen leaving her home in the suburb of Mangakakahi, west of the city centre, about 7am on March... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10631804&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:08:56 +1200 Taupo man Lucky Tupara, who has 61 previous convictions for violence, was jailed for seven months when he appeared in Taupo District Court yesterday. Tupara, 36, who was first convicted of violence in 1997, had pleaded guilty to... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10631625&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:29:36 +1200 Vodafone mobile users have reported trouble connecting in Wellington yesterday and Taupo today. Vodafone spokesman Paul Brislen said there had been no network outage, just a lot of pressure on the network from growing data usage. "At... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10631583&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:12:54 +1200 A 19-year-old Taupo man convicted of causing a life-threatening head injury to his three-month old baby was today jailed for 16 months. Taupo District Court was told that forestry worker Chevy Benjamin Leeward Cashell threw the... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10631393&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:56:23 +1200 A two-year-old boy was last night airlifted to hospital after falling out of his bunk bed. The boy from Turangi suffered head injuries when he fell from his bunk in his sleep. The boy, accompanied by his mother, was flown for... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10631322&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:19:05 +1200 At this time of year our eardrums are overwhelmed by the rasping, buzzing chorus of cicadas. It goes on and on and on and on. Unending. It comes from the bushes, the tree trunks, the branches. Seemingly everywhere. You can't escape... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10631084&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +1200 Security at the Waiouru Army Museum is under scrutiny again as it admits that two more sets of medals have been missing for some time. The latest medals loss follows the theft of rifles and other items by a former curator last... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10631051&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:14:38 +1200 A brain-damaged Rotorua mother of nine has been sentenced for seriously assaulting two of her children. The 37-year-old woman had previously been convicted of manslaughter after killing her former partner following years of abuse... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10630866&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:06:34 +1200 Maori told the parliamentary tobacco inquiry today that their marae were being undermined by tobacco smoking and the associated early death of their elders. "Our marae are under attack," said Kiri Potaka-Dewes, the chairwoman of... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10630667&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +1200 Rotorua police have released the name of an Auckland man killed in a head on car crash on State Highway 30. Graham Paul Hyndman of Onehunga died when a car and van collided around 7.30 yesterday morning south of Rotorua. Andrew... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10630494&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:55:57 +1200 Rotorua police intercepted a posse of boys armed with a knife, a wheelbrace and an iron bar, on their way to attack students from another school. The posse was from Rotorua Boys' High School - the school at the centre of a drug-test... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10630393&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200 A man is dead following a head-on collision south of Rotorua this morning. A BayTrust rescue helicopter flew to Atiamuri after the crash between a car and a van at about 8am, BayTrust spokesman Neil Dodds said. Rotorua St John... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/central-north-island/news/article.cfm?l_id=151&objectid=10630293&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:20:39 +1200